Yahoo ups free email to 100MB; Plus mail to 2GB


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Yahoo on Tuesday will begin offering 100MB of extra storage for users of its free e-mail service as part of an overall redesign of its mail service.

Along with the 100MB boost, Yahoo will upgrade Mail Plus paid users to 2GB of storage and lower its yearly subscription from $29.99 a year to $19.99. Other a la carte services, such as POP e-mail forwarding, will consolidate under this plan and no longer be sold on a standalone basis.

The storage boost comes as no surprise. Yahoo arch-rival Google in April announced plans to launch a free e-mail service called "Gmail" with 1GB of storage. The upcoming launch of Gmail has changed the landscape for free-e-mail users, but also raised privacy concerns because of Google's decision to serve advertisements based on scanning the content of e-mail text. Yahoo executives last month announced the company would offer its own storage upgrade as part of overall changes to the service.

Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo's vice president of communications products, said the changes were enacted to make "e-mail storage a nonissue." He acknowledged that competitive forces were a factor as well.

"There are new competitors on the scene, and we want to make sure the things we're focused on are important with users," Garlinghouse said.

The new storage limits amount to a strategic turnaround for Yahoo. In 2002, the company began charging for various tiers of storage size for its photos and briefcase products. Yahoo also lowered its free e-mail memory from 6MB to 4MB for new members.

Aside from being able to keep more e-mails, most changes to the new Yahoo Mail are cosmetic, with emphasis on making the service sleeker and faster. The product will give greater emphasis to a mail search bar at the top of the page. Unlike Google, the Yahoo search bar will not search e-mail text to serve advertisements, but will allow people to more easily hunt for buried correspondence.

Garlinghouse also said the company will free 50 million identities into circulation. That means identities that have remained dormant will become available again for general use. While Yahoo has maintained a policy of recycling user identities after six months of dormancy, the company has taken a "very conservative approach" to offering these names back to users, Garlinghouse said.

Source: http://news.com.com/Yahoo+to+launch+100MB+..._3-5233594.html

Woohoo! 2GB of storage, pop3 access, and $10 less per year! Go Yahoo! :D

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I guess some time tomorrow. I came home this evening to an email in my yahoo mailbox saying "You've exceeded your mailbox limit. You are using 1MB of -2048MB", so I knew something was up...

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awesome. not only do i get 3mbit dsl for 35 dollars, now they are giving me a 2 GB email account. i love sbc yahoo. however, they sent my mailbox from 30 to 10 megs ATM, but im sure it will go back up t otwo gigs.

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will they upgrade the accounts of SBC dsl users like me you think? I use yahoo mail sbc that comes with my account.. I wonder if I will get this upgrade.. *begs*

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awesome. not only do i get 3mbit dsl for 35 dollars, now they are giving me a 2 GB email account. i love sbc yahoo. however, they sent my mailbox from 30 to 10 megs ATM, but im sure it will go back up t otwo gigs.

hey nuka you got sbc yahoo dsl too eh? same here.. im in the same boat as you.. i hope they give us 2gb.. then i can say.. screw gmail!

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awesome. not only do i get 3mbit dsl for 35 dollars, now they are giving me a 2 GB email account. i love sbc yahoo. however, they sent my mailbox from 30 to 10 megs ATM, but im sure it will go back up t otwo gigs.

Mines was diffrent but i got that mail as well

Woohoo! 2GB of storage, pop3 access, and $10 less per year! Go Yahoo! :D

And I completed my 1 year I have 2 re-new next month...wicked :D

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,Jun 15 2004, 14:07] I never did like the Yahoo navigation system.. kinda boring. :(

Yeah agree. They should change their theme :)

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It's not worthwhile to sign up for, you'll most likely get a username that you don't want.. because you would have to add numbers at the end of it..

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Well, I'm on server 410 (of god knows how many), so i suppose their tech staff is going around "flicking the switch" on every server one-by-one in time for tomorrow. I imagine it will take some time ;)

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